Nobody is "Cancelled" and Everything is Fine. You're Just Being Manipulated

UNPOPULAR OPINION: The perception that the world is offended by everything now days compared to other eras is just false. It's just the reflection of the modern media landscape, packaging pockets of anger in order to allow you to also be mad, about a few people being mad about something silly. But they make it look big and real and want you to react and feel smart about it. It's just backlash to fake backlash, sponsored by your corporate sponsors, for clicks.

Twitter/Social Media offers every descending opinion on a platter, that can easily be packaged into a "People are Saying Taylor Swift Eating a Taco is Cultural Appropriation", as if it represents any actual sizeable portion of the population. As if it's something you should pay attention to, or react to, or even think about. And that package of 20 annoying people saying extreme opinions, creates an exponential counter-reaction, simply because a website packaged it up and put a title on it. And then people click it and react to it. Faaarrrr too many people click on them and react to them. Or build entire personalities about being against entire concepts of articles like this. As they consume it as if it's news. As if it's worthy of their time. And it works for clicks, and here we are.

Media Literacy Tip: Just because someone can create a narrative, doesn't mean it holds any real water or even represents things in a way that reflects reality.

So when I see people complaining about cancel-culture or saying "Everyone is so sensitive now days", it just irks me. Not from where I'm standing. It just depends what you are reacting to I guess. I think you're being fed things to be mad about, for clicks. People are just reacting to what they consume without noting that. And you are what you eat.
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So the cycle continues and will never stop in this direction, if you're not actually DISCERNING about what you are consuming. #MediaLiteracy